AMY BERNSTEIN // CV

Born Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Portland, OR

EDUCATION
2004    Rhode Island School of Design, BFA

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017    A Lover's Race, Nationale, Portland, OR
2015   The Liminalists, with Patrick Kelly, Nationale, Portland, OR
2014   Notes, Nationale, Portland, OR
2011    New Games, Stumptown Downtown, Portland, OR
2009  A. Bernstein, Stumptown Division, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017     I AM THIS, Art by Oregon Jewish Artists, The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
            A Lot A Lot, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2016    Portland Museum of Modern Art/Houseguest, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
            Salon: Portland2016 Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner, Disjecta, Portland, OR
            and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University,  Marylhurst, OR
2015    Testable Predictions, Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland, OR
2012    Collider, Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland, OR
            Highlighter, Nationale, Portland, OR
            Perceptual Control, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
2011    Art & Leisure, Colonel Summer Tennis Courts, Portland, OR
2010   Re:Port, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
           Bubble Letters, Car Hole Gallery, Portland, OR
           Dump Art, Berlin, Germany
2009  Neverending Neo in a West Coast Lite, Stumptown Belmont, Portland, OR

PUBLICATIONS
2014    Notes, exhibition catalog, Nationale, Portland, OR

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016    Barry Johnson, Considering the Art Gym's Abstractions, Oregon ArtsWatch
2015    Graham Bell & Jessica Pierson, In The Dark of Space, A Light: Amy Bernstein & Patrick Kelly at Nationale, Noise & Color PDX
            Ryland Quillen, Saturday Selects: Week of October 26, 2015, Sight Unseen
            Featured on WomenArtists.org
            Enid Spitz, North Portland Gets a New Art Infusion, Willamette Week
2014    Ryan Fish, Interview: Amy Bernstein, Beautiful Savage
            John Motley, March 2014 Previews, The Oregonian
            Jeff Jahn, Weekend picks, PORT
            Eva Lake, Interview with Artist Amy Bernstein, Art Focus, KBOO FM    

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2018 Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, Seattle, WA
Stumptown Artist Fellowship, Portland, OR
2017    Arteles Silence Awareness Existence Residency, Finland
            Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2012    Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2010    Short Form Arts Writers Grant, Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation

WRITING
2013    When the Walls are White, Appendix Space Project catalog
2012    Sassafrass, Weekday
2011    The Strip Mauling of Sanctity, YA5
2010    Detritrustus, Dump Art catalog
             Interview with Jonathan Lasker for L.A. Louver’s catalogue of Recent Paintings
2006–present    contributing critic for online art blog, PORT

REPRESENTATION
Nationale, Portland, OR